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TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF A.M.E. GEN'L CONFERENCE OPENED AT ARMORY RT. REV. BENJAMIN F. LEE PRESIDING BISHOP [Photo] BISHOP BENJAMIN F. LEE, D. D. PH. D. Senior Bishop who retired at the Tuesday session at the age of 84. -- Monday marked the opening of the twenty-seventh session of the A. M. E. General Conference. At 9:30 a. m. the long line of distinguished ministers and laymen marched from the Quinn Chapel to the Armory, where at 10 o'clock, the venerable senior Bishop B. F. Lee formally opened the conference. After very impressive devotional exercises consisting of scripture and responsive readings interspersed with appropriate musical selections in which several of the bishops participated; Bishop John Hurst delivered the quadrennial sermon, in which he urged the Church to take a strong stand against the forces that tend to disintegrate the best that is in our civilization.
The consecration of the Holy Communion followed. Bishops Carey, Brooks, Vernon and Fountain officiating.
Bishop Lee called the afternoon session to order at 3 o'clock. The invocation was offered by Rev. L. R. Nichols, the scripture lesson was read by Dr. W. H. Thomas, and the second hymn was lined by the veteran Illinois minister, Rev. Timothy Reeves. Then the conference proceeded to the election of secretaries. The leading aspirants for chief secretary were Reverends R. V. Smith of the New Jersey Conference, and Rev. Horace Jenkins of the West Virginia Conference. After a spirited contest, Rev. Jenkins was elected.
The Bishops' quadrennium address, written by Bishop Heard of the First Episcopal District, was read by Bishop Joseph S. Flipper of the Sixth Episcopal District. This address, which is the strongest ever delivered by the chief prelates of the Church, discussed the questions of war, theology, marriage, divorce, mob violence and Ku Kluxism; prohibition, migration, evangelism, inter-racial relations, the present national administration, and Methodism. Declaring that the fundamentals of the church are solid and lasting the address stressed the idea that the ideal of a faith so dynamic that it is manifested by the works accomplished. The address reiterated its belief in a consecrated, educated ministry, and deplored the fact that "we are not giving the attention to our theological seminaries that we are to our academic schools." A fund that will insure to the superannuated preachers, widows, and orphans "practical sympathy" was any compromise as has been the custom that the Church takes a high stand on the question of marriage and divorce, and advises young ministers to enter into a marriage state only after adequate contemplation and consideration. It deplores the great number of divirces and the ease with which they may be obtained. "The Bible is so em- recommended. The address declares phatic on this subject that we as a Church cannot be less emphatic.
Mob violence and Ku Kluxism are severely arraigned and the declaration is made that the A. M. E. Church must stand for law and order; but it believes that the law of the land has sufficient force to punish crime committed by any class, without the intervention of mobs. The address condemns the present administration because of its apathy toward our people and advised the Negro to vote less in the future from sentiment and more from political foresight.
The following are among the recommendations made by the bishops in this address: The election of two bishops, a more extensive missionary program, the adoption of the budget system, and the eligibility of women to seats in Annual and General Conferences as members thereof.
Fully 5,000 delegates, visitors and citizens assembled in the Armory Monday evening to hear the welcome addresses and the responses. Bishop Archibald J. Carey presided with his usual grace and dignity. The music was of an unusually high order and was furnished by a chorus of sixty voices under the direction of Prof. Horace Simmons. Several selections rendered splendidly by the Blind Institute Band were loudly applauded by the audience. Welcome addresses were delivered by Bishop George C. Clement, Presiding Elder John Acton Hill, Dr. NoahW. Williams, Attorney Ditzmouth, representing Mayor Huston Quin and Prof. George W. Jackson. Responses to these were made by Bishup I. N. Ross, Rev. G. G. Young, Rev. R. A. Grant and Mr. A. E. Malone.
Important legislation and questions affecting the general church and the several departments will engage the attention of the conference in its morning and afternoon sessions from now until the 23rd, when the conference will adjourn. But the most ex- (Continued on page 8)
MALONES GIVE $25,Q~O TO "Y'~ CAMPAIGN
PART ONE
General and Special
Editorials
PARAGRAPHICS
CURRENT NEWS AND OPINION (By Mabie Wright)
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1. E. General Conferen e
EdItion
GREATEST
MRS. GIPSON WINS A GAIN TWENTY-Second Period $1
Goes To Clarkdale, MississippI
Committee. Candidate
(be largest number of votes during the
Tbe Zions are
Walls is elected the A . M. E . Zion room of the
the lip Barry Wills will box Jack Dempsey QUELL NEAR DIOT AT POLITICAL COVENTION
who then assumed D r R . R. Wright of
ARREST WHITE MEN WHO WHIPPED COLORED WOMAN

TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF A.M.E. GEN'L CONFERENCE OPENED AT ARMORY RT. REV. BENJAMIN F. LEE PRESIDING BISHOP [Photo] BISHOP BENJAMIN F. LEE, D. D. PH. D. Senior Bishop who retired at the Tuesday session at the age of 84. -- Monday marked the opening of the twenty-seventh session of the A. M. E. General Conference. At 9:30 a. m. the long line of distinguished ministers and laymen marched from the Quinn Chapel to the Armory, where at 10 o'clock, the venerable senior Bishop B. F. Lee formally opened the conference. After very impressive devotional exercises consisting of scripture and responsive readings interspersed with appropriate musical selections in which several of the bishops participated; Bishop John Hurst delivered the quadrennial sermon, in which he urged the Church to take a strong stand against the forces that tend to disintegrate the best that is in our civilization.
The consecration of the Holy Communion followed. Bishops Carey, Brooks, Vernon and Fountain officiating.
Bishop Lee called the afternoon session to order at 3 o'clock. The invocation was offered by Rev. L. R. Nichols, the scripture lesson was read by Dr. W. H. Thomas, and the second hymn was lined by the veteran Illinois minister, Rev. Timothy Reeves. Then the conference proceeded to the election of secretaries. The leading aspirants for chief secretary were Reverends R. V. Smith of the New Jersey Conference, and Rev. Horace Jenkins of the West Virginia Conference. After a spirited contest, Rev. Jenkins was elected.
The Bishops' quadrennium address, written by Bishop Heard of the First Episcopal District, was read by Bishop Joseph S. Flipper of the Sixth Episcopal District. This address, which is the strongest ever delivered by the chief prelates of the Church, discussed the questions of war, theology, marriage, divorce, mob violence and Ku Kluxism; prohibition, migration, evangelism, inter-racial relations, the present national administration, and Methodism. Declaring that the fundamentals of the church are solid and lasting the address stressed the idea that the ideal of a faith so dynamic that it is manifested by the works accomplished. The address reiterated its belief in a consecrated, educated ministry, and deplored the fact that "we are not giving the attention to our theological seminaries that we are to our academic schools." A fund that will insure to the superannuated preachers, widows, and orphans "practical sympathy" was any compromise as has been the custom that the Church takes a high stand on the question of marriage and divorce, and advises young ministers to enter into a marriage state only after adequate contemplation and consideration. It deplores the great number of divirces and the ease with which they may be obtained. "The Bible is so em- recommended. The address declares phatic on this subject that we as a Church cannot be less emphatic.
Mob violence and Ku Kluxism are severely arraigned and the declaration is made that the A. M. E. Church must stand for law and order; but it believes that the law of the land has sufficient force to punish crime committed by any class, without the intervention of mobs. The address condemns the present administration because of its apathy toward our people and advised the Negro to vote less in the future from sentiment and more from political foresight.
The following are among the recommendations made by the bishops in this address: The election of two bishops, a more extensive missionary program, the adoption of the budget system, and the eligibility of women to seats in Annual and General Conferences as members thereof.
Fully 5,000 delegates, visitors and citizens assembled in the Armory Monday evening to hear the welcome addresses and the responses. Bishop Archibald J. Carey presided with his usual grace and dignity. The music was of an unusually high order and was furnished by a chorus of sixty voices under the direction of Prof. Horace Simmons. Several selections rendered splendidly by the Blind Institute Band were loudly applauded by the audience. Welcome addresses were delivered by Bishop George C. Clement, Presiding Elder John Acton Hill, Dr. NoahW. Williams, Attorney Ditzmouth, representing Mayor Huston Quin and Prof. George W. Jackson. Responses to these were made by Bishup I. N. Ross, Rev. G. G. Young, Rev. R. A. Grant and Mr. A. E. Malone.
Important legislation and questions affecting the general church and the several departments will engage the attention of the conference in its morning and afternoon sessions from now until the 23rd, when the conference will adjourn. But the most ex- (Continued on page 8)
MALONES GIVE $25,Q~O TO "Y'~ CAMPAIGN
PART ONE
General and Special
Editorials
PARAGRAPHICS
CURRENT NEWS AND OPINION (By Mabie Wright)
I 24 -- PAGES - 24
1. E. General Conferen e
EdItion
GREATEST
MRS. GIPSON WINS A GAIN TWENTY-Second Period $1
Goes To Clarkdale, MississippI
Committee. Candidate
(be largest number of votes during the
Tbe Zions are
Walls is elected the A . M. E . Zion room of the
the lip Barry Wills will box Jack Dempsey QUELL NEAR DIOT AT POLITICAL COVENTION
who then assumed D r R . R. Wright of
ARREST WHITE MEN WHO WHIPPED COLORED WOMAN